Baddesley Clinton
National Trust, Baddesley Clinton Hall, Knowle, Solihull, Warwickshire, B93 0DQ
Baddesley Clinton was the home of the Ferrers family for 500 years.
Much of the house you see today was built by Henry Ferrers, a lawyer, diarist and antiquarian, in the late 1500s.
The house was a sanctuary not only for the Ferrers family, but also for persecuted Catholics who were hidden from priest hunters in its secret hiding places during the 1590s.
Why not take a stroll around the gardens from the walled garden to the vegetable patch and beyond; the gardens at Baddesley look beautiful whatever the season.
National Trust, Baddesley Clinton Hall, Knowle, Solihull, Warwickshire, B93 0DQ